Category Archives: Windows Vista

Test your router’s compatibility with Vista

The Internet Connectivity Evaluation Tool checks your router to see if it supports certain networking technologies, like IPv6 tunnelling over IPv4, and traffic congestion protocols.
My Belkin F1PI241EGau from iiNet scored the following:

Basic Internet Connectivity Test – Supported
Network Address Translator Type – Not Supported
Traffic Congestion Test – Not Supported
TCP High performance Test – Not Supported
UPnP Support [...]

Clipboard Image Monitor

The idea was thrown up on our internal mailing list by Matty Cosier:
“Wouldn’t it be great if TFS Bug Snapper could use images from the clipboard? Then I could use SnagIt or the built-in Windows Vista Snipping Tool to take screenshots!” (or something like that)
Clipboard Image Monitor is a small utility that sits in the system [...]

Vista Performance Ratings

Seeing as we’re having a swinging competition, here’s my contribution from Windows Vista’s System Performance Rating screen. (Press WinKey+PauseBreak)

Sorry to break the news to you Geoff, but I don’t think 5 is the maximum – maybe it’s opened ended so it copes with lots of new hardware.
No doubt Mitch will beat us all given enough [...]

FIX: Can’t connect to Virtual Server 2005 on Vista

Further to my last post on installing Virtual Server 2005 R2 on Windows Vista here’s some more guidance. Since Vista Beta 2 was released a couple of days ago I’ve helped numerous people in the “office” get Virtual Server up and running on Vista.
After installing IIS with the required components (refer to the massive pkgmgr command [...]